Due to fire codes, all the doors in the building have door
closers. As you can imagne, there are a lot of rubber door
wedges, that get used. If I'm locking up at night, I like to
knock all the wedges out, and leave the doors closed. I
figure the 45 minute fire ratng is zero, with the door
wedged open.

I havn't given it a lot of thought, as to which doors get
used the most. There are 13 exterior door, and 2 womens
bathrooms. So, it's reasonable to figure that the womens
bathrooms get a bit of use. Two congregations, with probably
450 persons who attend in one session or other. I'd figure
250 or so persons each Sunday who use the womens room, if
you include boys under age of 3. So, the womens room door
gets plenty of use. About 200 males, age 2 and over, for the
mens room. Some men change their babies, so it's not all the
kids 3 and under in the womens.

However, those bathroom doors are likely to be high usage.

I'm with you, in that door closers need regular adjustment.
I showed a friend how to adjust the closers, and he really
enjoyed that new knowledge. We went through the entire
building, and did them all. About six months from now,
several will be slamming, again. I just did a quick count in
my head, and there are about 70 (seventy) door closers in
the building.

Did you refil them with fluid, or just adjust the allen
screws?

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Christopher A. Young
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Years ago I did maintenance in a church. Door closers were
always
causing problems. It seems like they last a few years and
after that
they just become troublesome. I originally tried to fix
them but
found that they are just a pain in the ass to work on and it
seemed
that if I did get them working, the "fix" only lasted a few
months at
best. I tried to find a company that would rebuild the old
ones but
there was none. I finally convinced the church directors to
just
purchase a case of new ones. That way I had them on hand,
and could
replace them as soon as they became a problem. Plus we got
a better
price buying a whole case of them, rather than getting one
at a time.

The rarely used doors, such as the ones that went to storage
rooms
often got some of the older ones that still worked but were
a little
noisy or operated too slow. That saved a few bucks.

Before they ordered the case of new ones, they were paying
more for my
hourly wages to keep fixing (or trying to fix) those old
ones, which
is how I convinced them to buy new ones. Granted, I liked
the extra
hourly pay, but then I would get complaints when they quit
working
again. Plus they are a pain to work on. IF you only need
one or two,
just buy them. You'll waste more money trying to fix them,
and once
they are worn, you keep fixing them over and over and over
again.